Business Performance & Integrated Scheduling Director

Shape Your World

At Alcoa, you will become an essential part of our purpose: to turn raw potential into real progress. The way we see it, every Alcoan is a work-shaper, team-shaper, idea-shaper & world-shaper.

This is an opportunity for you to bring your wealth of experience to the team and help shape the future of sustainability with world-changing innovations and low carbon technologies. You have the power to shape things to make them better.

About the Role

Are you a strategic powerhouse who thrives at the intersection of operations, data‑driven decision making and business transformation?

Do you lead with clarity, influence with confidence, and solve big, complex problems with precision?

Alcoa is seeking a Business Optimisation & Integrated Scheduling Director, a role that sits at the centre of our mines‑to‑refinery‑to‑port value chain and leads our internal consulting capability. This is a rare opportunity to shape the performance of a fully integrated industrial system while solving the most critical challenges across our Australian operations.

You will be the architect of our end‑to‑end integrated schedule, ensuring stability, efficiency and value creation across our operations. At the same time, you’ll lead a high‑performing team of problem‑solvers tackling complex, business‑critical issues that simply cannot slip.

This is a role for someone who wants to influence the whole system, not just one part of it. 

While the position is varied, key responsibilities include:

• Lead internal consulting to solve critical business problems and drive performance.
• Own integrated value chain scheduling to optimise throughput and reliability.
• Manage enterprise performance reporting and provide executives with timely insights.
• Align senior stakeholders to ensure coordinated planning and execution.
• Lead and develop a high‑performing, multidisciplinary team.

What’s on offer

• A competitive executive salary that reflects the strategic impact of your role.
• Flexible arrangements that support work-life integration at the executive level.
• Access to training designed for senior executives
• Visibility across senior leadership and potential progression into corporate or operational executive roles.
• Alcoa Live Well program offering travel, lifestyle, health and wellbeing discounts.
• Connect and be part of a community that celebrates diversity through our employee inclusion groups.

What you can bring to the role

• Deep experience in heavy industry, operations, or complex industrial systems
• Strong analytical, strategic problem‑solving and communication capability
• A background in consulting or internal strategy/operations roles
• The ability to influence, align and lead across diverse senior stakeholders
• A mindset geared toward optimisation, simplification and disciplined execution

Additional information

• The advertising closing date for this vacancy is the 18th February.
• Interviews may progress prior to the closing date, although all applications will be considered.
• You will only be contacted if you are shortlisted for an interview, this process can take up to four weeks from the closing date.

Be part of shaping our organisation and join us in building a legacy of excellence for future generations.

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About the Location

Alcoa Australia’s company headquarters is located at 235 St Georges Terrace in Perth CBD, Western Australia, on Whadjuk Noongar land. The office is conveniently close to public transport and parking, and hosts employees from various business functions, including Commercial, Finance, Sustainability, Communications, and Human Resources, as well as expert teams supporting local and global locations. Our head office offers modern, open-plan working facilities and excellent end-of-trip amenities within a state-of-the-art building.

We are values led, vision driven and united by our purpose of transforming raw potential into real progress.  Our commitments to Inclusion, Diversity & Equity include providing trusting workplaces that are safe, respectful and inclusive of all individuals, free from discrimination, bullying and harassment and that our workplaces reflect the diversity of the communities in which we operate.    

This is a place where you are empowered to do your best work, be your authentic self, and feel a true sense of belonging. Come join us and shape your career!  

Your work. Your world. Shape them for the better.